4.18.2014

4.08.2014

The investment bank’s April survey of 148 brokers found that this quarter, the average premium increase
for customers renewing an insurance plan is 12 percent in the small
group market and 11 percent in the individual market, according to
Forbes’ Scott Gottlieb.
The hikes — the largest
in the past three years, according to Morgan Stanley’s quarterly
reports — are “largely due to changes under the [Affordable Care Act],”
analysts concluded. Rates have been growing increasingly fast throughout
all of 2013, after a period of drops in 2012

4.06.2014

Mozilla has now made its employment policy clear.
No Catholics need apply.
Or Evangelical Christians.
Or Eastern Orthodox.
Or Orthodox Jews.
Or Mormons.
Or Muslims.

Unless, that is, you are the “right kind” of Catholic, Evangelical,
Eastern Orthodox Christian, observant Jew, Mormon, or Muslim, namely,
the kind who believes your religious or philosophical tradition is wrong
about the nature of marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife,
and the view now dominant among secular elites is correct. In that
case, Mozilla will consider you morally worthy to work for them. Or
maybe you can work for them even if you do happen to believe (or should I
say “believe”) your faith’s teaching—so long as you keep your mouth
shut about it: “Don’t ask, don’t tell.”

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